Tickets on sale now for Kentucky’s PGA Tour event in Nicholasville

Tickets for the 2023 PGA Tour Barbasol Championship went on sale Tuesday, as the annual professional golf tournament returns for its fifth year in Nicholasville.

This year’s event takes place July 13-16 at Champions at Keene Trace, just outside of Lexington. The PGA Barbasol moved from Alabama to Kentucky in 2018 and was granted a five-year extension in 2019 to remain in Nicholasville through at least 2023.

Troy Merritt won the tournament in 2018 and Jim Herman in 2019. The event was canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic. Seamus Power captured the championship of our state’s only PGA Tour event in 2021 and Trey Mullinax won it last year.

Previously, the Barbasol Championship was played the same weekend as the British Open. Last year for the first time, the Barbasol was played the week prior and offered, in addition to $3.8 million in purse money and 300 FedEx points, a coveted entry to the Open Championship.

The same scheduling format, purse and incentives will be in play at the PGA Barbasol in 2023, with the winner earning a berth in the British Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in England.

When it arrived in 2018, the PGA Barbasol became the first regular-season tournament to be played in Kentucky since the Kentucky Derby Open was held in Louisville from 1957-59. The PGA’s Champions Tour for older players hosted a regular tournament in Lexington from 1983-97.

Visit Barbasolchampionship.com/tickets to order tickets, which are free for Monday’s and Tuesday’s practice rounds the week of the tournament and for Wednesday’s Celebrity Pro Am. General admission tickets Thursday through Sunday are $40 per day. A general admission ticket encompassing all four days is $120. Children 15 years and younger are admitted free when accompanied by a ticketed adult.

Clubhouse tickets are also available for purchase for single days ($285) or for the entire weekend ($1,000).

Please contact event officials at (859) 536-8636 with questions.